Donatus the Great developed a heresy, of which created many other heresies. This mother of heresies is the belief that Holy Mother Church is composed only of those who are just. The wicked were excluded from it. Like the protestant doctrine of Faith Alone, the Donatist doctrine of Just Alone created many other heresies. Just Alone implicates several layers of understandings, one of which is the ideology of the remnant. The remnant is the belief that the Catholic Church will (or has) fall[en] and the remnants will reconstruct the True Church. The remnant believes that the wicked will fall away from the church, and that the just alone will remain.Continuer la lecture de The « Other Apostasy »

The prophet Daniel had a vision of the Angel Gabriel, who told him that the Messiah would appear after sixty-nine weeks (Daniel 9:20 and 25). Sixty-nine weeks is a Jewish way of saying sixty-nine sevens (69* 7), or 483 years. The 483 years began “from the going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one.” (Daniel 9:25).

The “going forth of the word to restore and build Jerusalem” occurred when King Artaxerxes issued the proclamation to restore and rebuild Jerusalem in 453 B.C. Now if you do the math, 453 B.C. minus 483 years is A.D. 30, the same year that Jesus began his public ministry. Jesus started his ministry when he was 30 years old. This implies that he was born around 1 A.D. or 1 B.C.Continuer la lecture de When Was Jesus Born?

What does Mormons, Jehovah-Witnesses, Adventists, Protestants, and even Islam have in common? They believe in a great apostasy, when the Catholic Church was created and went to killed the real « Christians… » They think that the original faith of Jesus and his disciples was eradicated by Catholics. The chosen date is the time of Constantine…Continuer la lecture de On « The Great Apostasy »